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jiggawattstoday at 8:27 AM1 replyview on HN

Took the beta for a quick spin and... wow, the speed is truly astonishing!

Windows doesn't feel slow because the kernel or the filesystem is inherently "that" slow, it feels like a sloth overdosing on heroin because nobody at Microsoft gives the slightest crap about making it even a tiny bit faster.

It's staggering how the instant you double-click a file in File Pilot you're... back in the tar pit. (The Windows image preview app just spins... and spins... while it does God-knows-what with my CPUs.)

The contrast of going from one to the other makes the quality difference glaringly obvious.


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modelesstoday at 3:22 PM

The Windows filesystem is very slow. It's not the main cause of slowness in Explorer, but it's still a real problem.